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Week 17 Day 118 Flag Today 56°/31° Wind 7mph Gusts 11mph Active Fire: 395 miles away Risk of fire: Very Low Nearest Lightning: 237 miles away Air Quality: Fair Partly Cloudy Windy Apr. Averages: Temps: 60°\27° Moisture: 3 Days |
Weekly Observations
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20-27 National
Dance Week: Link |
22-26 Financial
Practice Week 22-28 National
Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) Link National
& Global Youth Service Days |
Daily Observations
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Alien
Day Link |
National
Hairball Awareness Day |
Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." — Oscar Wilde |
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Today’s Thoughts
Yesterday had
thunder, lightning close by and rain, today will probably be windy, rain and
light snow. Typical spring in Flagstaff.
The great state of
Tennessee is considering a law to allow teachers to carry guns in classrooms
after a background check, psych eval, hours of training and a drug test. Why
not do the same for all gun sales?
Did you Know?
The Nazis Awarded Henry
Ford With Their Highest Civilian Honor
On Henry Ford's 75th birthday, in 1938, he received what
most people today would call a dubious honor. His "gift" was
the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of
the German Eagle, the
highest honor Nazi Germany could give to any foreigner.
Ford
became the first American recipient of the award, created by Adolf Hitler in
1937. It was said that Hitler greatly admired Ford and tried to do with the
Volkswagen Beetle what Ford did with the Model T.
To be
fair to Ford, while he was anti-Semitic, he was also anti-war and refused to go to Germany to
receive the honor. So, the honor had to come to Dearborn, MI.
Interesting Facts
Fact: Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world
Not only does Sudan have
more pyramids than Egypt, but the numbers aren’t even close. While 138 pyramids
have been discovered in Egypt, Sudan boasts around 255. Next, see if you can
answer these real Jeopardy! questions about geography.
Historic Events
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1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the
writ of habeas corpus.
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1967 – Expo 67 officially opened in Montreal, Quebec.
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1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former
Soviet republics joined the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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2006 – Construction began on the Freedom Tower (now One
World Trade Center) in New York City.
Birthdays with some quotes
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74 – Ace Frehley, American
guitarist and songwriter. Space/Ace, The Spaceman 65 – Sheena Easton,
Scottish-American singer-songwriter 60 – Russell T Davies, Welsh
screenwriter and producer 38 – Jenna Coleman, English actress 36 – Lizzo (Melissa Viviane Jefferson), American singer and
rapper “Just
about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the
inside, that you can be beggir than the rest of it.” |
@94 – Walter Lantz, American
animator and producer (d. 1994) @90 – Jack Klugman, American actor (d.
2012) @80 – Samuel Morse, American painter
and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (d. 1872) @81 – George Petty, American painter
and illustrator (d. 1975) @78 – Coretta Scott King, African-American
activist and author (d. 2006; cancer) “Hate
is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the
hated.” @63 – Ulysses S. Grant, American general
and politician, 18th President (d. 1885) @54 – Sandy Dennis, American actress
(d. 1992; ovarian cancer) @41 – Wallace Carothers, American
chemist, inventor of nylon (d. 1937; suicide) “Living
in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the
supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of
population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we
deal more sanely with our resources.” @38 – Mary
Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (d. 1797; sepsis) v27 – Pete Ham musician (Badfinger)(d.
1975; suicide) #27club |
…The End for today…
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